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The US Universities Debating Championship (USUDC) is the largest British Parliamentary debating tournament in the United States, and one of the largest debate tournaments in the world. The event is held for college and university students attending school in the United States, and is hosted by a different university each year.
An early pioneer of these styles of debate was the University of Louisville debate team, led by Ed Warner. [27]: 4–5 As debate techniques continued to become more progressive, new debate leagues were formed to accommodate different styles. The Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) was established in 1971. Jack Howe, the first president ...
Northwestern University 1999–2000: Kristen Langwell & Andy Ryan: University of Iowa: 2000–2001: Randy Luskey & Dan Shalmon: University of California, Berkeley: 2001–2002: Alex Berger & Ben Thorpe: Dartmouth College 2002–2003: Geoff Garen & Tristan Morales: Northwestern University 2003–2004: Dan Shalmon & Tejinder Singh: University of ...
Colleges and university with policy debate programs at the collegiate level also often host tournaments for this circuit. Another elite form is the TOC ( Tournament of Champions ), in which qualification is required by winning bids from at least two large-scale, participating tournaments by advancing to a certain stage depending on the size of ...
It uses game theory to formalize political theory. In it, Riker deduces the size principle. On its postulates, politicians are proved to form winning, minimal-size coalitions. [1] The work runs contrary to a previous theory by Anthony Downs that they try to maximize their respective votes. Riker supposes that attracting more votes requires ...
Today, many organisations at the secondary and tertiary levels of education, such as schools, colleges or debate-clubs sponsor parliamentary debate teams. In the 1980s, global debating championships such as the World Universities Debating Championship and related formats were established, which all use variants of the parliamentary style of debate.
The Harvard College Debating Union (previously known as the Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society) is Harvard University's only internationally competitive debate team. The union has won the most American Parliamentary Debate Association National Championships and the 2014, 2016 and 2018 World Universities Debating Championships .
The North American Debating Championship is one of the two official university debate championships of North America. It is sanctioned by the national university debating associations in the United States and Canada , the American Parliamentary Debate Association and the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate .